Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He Had No Interest Setting the Firefly Animated Series After Serenity

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Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He Had No Interest Setting the Firefly Animated Series After Serenity

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Because they killed Wash in the movie.
I always thought that was a weird call. I know Firefly didn’t really have a chance for revival back then, but killing two of the cast seemed excessive.

Movies With Mikey has an interesting anecdote from a pre-release screening he saw of Serenity. Wash’s death was so unexpected that a woman in the audience started screaming and had a panic attack until she could be removed from the theater.

That part was pretty brutal, but it did make the stakes in the following hallway fight feel appropriately sky high.

I’m imagining the stakes of her hallway fight in the theater.